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[George Washington, bust portrait with laurel wreath, facing left] – Vintage Photo Print

[George Washington, bust portrait with laurel wreath, facing left], [ca. 1800] — historic drawing
[George Washington, bust portrait with laurel wreath, facing left], [ca. 1800]. Historic drawing from the Washington collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Crowned with a laurel wreath and turned to the left, this chalk drawing presents Washington as a classical hero rather than a plain farmer-statesman. It dates to about 1800, the year after his death in December 1799, when artists across the young nation produced memorial likenesses to meet public grief. The laurel, long associated with victory and honor in ancient Rome, was a common device in such tributes and signaled that Americans saw him as a figure of lasting renown. Executed in black and white chalk, the portrait belongs to a group of 1790 to 1810 portrait drawings in the Marian S. Carson Collection at the Library of Congress.

Created / published[ca. 1800]
Medium1 drawing : black and white chalk.
GenrePortrait drawings 1790-1810.
NotesForms part of: Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress). Exhibit loan 4105-L; 4106-L. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1996:086.5
SubjectsWashington, George,--1732-1799.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,292 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-213709

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